Claude-Joseph Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)
portrait by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778
Louvre
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Perhaps no painter of landscapes or sea-pieces has ever made the human figure so completely a part of the scene depicted or so important a factor in his design. Others may know better, he said, with just pride, how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture (wiki).

Vernet, Vue du Port de Rochefort, 1763
Musée National de la Marine
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• Morning
• Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm
• The Shipwreck
• La Promenade Vernet

(Old Masters)